How a lot meditation is nice for you? Why visualize an Enlightened being? Are there locations that meditation does not succeed in? All of those questions and extremely many extra are tackled during this titanic compilation of Sangharakshita's teachings on meditation, drawn from formerly released works and from the unpublished transcripts of seminars.

Students of Buddhism, themselves Buddhist, the following search to use the serious instruments of the academy to re-evaluate the reality and transformative worth in their culture in its relevance to the modern world.

Padmasambhava—the lotus born—overcame cultural, political, and religious hindrances to carry the Buddhist teachings to Tibet from India within the 9th century. Likewise, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche needed to triumph over non secular and cultural competition to Buddhism—the mystery teachings, in particular—to identify his neighborhood in North the US within the 20th century.